The annoying guy at parties who keeps changing the music may be facing redundancy, thanks to a new robot DJ docking station that chooses music, reacts to crowd feedback and dances appallingly. Developed by Georgia Tech’s Center for Music Technology, Shimi the robot is being demonstrated today at Google’s I/O conference in San Francisco and […]
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Clever vibrational hack turns iPhone into spyPhone
Researchers at Georgia Tech have demonstrated how a smartphone accelerometer (the sensor that detects the phone’s orientation) can sense nearby computer keyboard vibrations and decipher complete sentences with up to 80 percent accuracy. Georgia Tech’s Patrick Traynor (pictured) is presenting his team’s work this week at the 18th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security […]